ZEPHYR GLOBE Consulting redefines FinOps with innovative cloud cost strategies, based on value, delivering optimized spending and financial clarity.

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Are These Your Challenges?

  • Raising cloud costs.
  • Lack of usage visibility.
  • Engineering teams not aligned with Finance.
  • Difficulty on connecting budget to variable cloud costs.
  • Need to establish a FinOps culture.

Our services are tailored to your company needs.

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FinOps Enablement
Help establishing your FinOps team.
Process and Tool Model.


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Purchase Strategy
Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
CSP Negotiation.
Purchase tracking.

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Cost Optimization
Consumption Management.
Equity Resources.
Recommendations.
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Cost
Visibility
Cloud Cost Visualization.
Dashboard and Analisys.
Showback and Charge Back.

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FinOps Governance
Strategy and Policies.
Alerts and Monitoring.
KPI Tracking.


Our Services

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. The time you’d spend figuring things out on your own can be significantly reduced with expert guidance. Tap into my experience and insights to apply directly to your unique circumstances. My approach isn’t about tearing down what you’ve built—it’s about refining, enhancing, and leveraging what already exists to drive greater success. Let’s build on your foundation and take it to the next level.

Low Cost FOCUS™ Cost Management Toolkit empowers FinOps practitioners to visualize cloud spending without technical complexity.

Easily analyze costs, uncover insights, and align financial decisions with business goals. No installation hassles—Simplify cost management and take control of your cloud expenses with confidence and ease. Start transforming your FinOps strategy today!

Low Cost FOCUS™ Cost Management Toolkit empowers FinOps practitioners to visualize cloud spending without technical complexity.

Easily analyze costs, uncover insights, and align financial decisions with business goals. No installation hassles—Simplify cost management and take control of your cloud expenses with confidence and ease. Start transforming your FinOps strategy today!

Online or in-person, fully structured or tailored—our FinOps training adapts to your needs. Learn from experienced professionals who’ve successfully implemented FinOps. Designed to foster a strong FinOps culture, our training enhances your team’s financial literacy, empowering them to optimize cloud costs and drive smarter financial decision-making with confidence.

How we work Together

Engage

  • You share your situation
  • You share your objectives
  • Pay for initial engagement

Action Plan

  • I perform an initial assessment
  • I present an action plan
  • We agree on success factors

Execution

  • We agree on Execution Fee
  • I execute in partnership with you
  • You are happy with the results. If not, we reiterate.

Acknowledgements

Gaurav G.

Luis D.

Alberto C.

Rui F.

On top of that, he’s been an active voice in the FinOps community, where he shows that he’s a born speaker and presenter.”

I’m the founder and solopreneur of ZEPHYR GLOBE. I’m a FinOps Pioneer, with extensive experience on FinOps adoption, Cost Optimization. Public Speaker and collaborator on major FinOps publications.

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We believe in giving back to the community. Through our blog, we share with the world the wisdom we’ve achieved along our professional experience. It is also a place of dialog and learning. Looking forward to hear your feedback and opinions.

Last posts

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    In a recent blog post, we delved into how Reserved Instances can impact engineering accountability. We emphasized the necessity for ownership of cloud costs and proposed solutions. Introducing FOCUS, a standard for harmonizing cloud billing data, with stable pricing and cost columns to enhance transparency and alignment for FinOps teams.

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  • Azure Changes to RI Exchange Policy

    Microsoft recently announced, for the 3rd time, changes to the Azure reservation exchange policy, more specifically, the date when Reservation Exchanges would be discontinued. Although the article says that it was planned for Jan 2024, there were also a previous announcement – not mentioned – that it would finish by June 2024.

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  • EVM CPI: The Ultimate Cloud Business Value Metric for FinOps Leaders

    CTOs, CFOs, and Directors need efficient data for decisions. EVM CPI, derived from Earned Value Management, is vital for cloud FinOps, indicating cost efficiency, resource allocation, and business value alignment. Challenges include data accuracy and contextual interpretation. EVM CPI empowers informed cloud decisions.

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  • Applying EVM to FinOps

    Earned Value Management (EVM), widely used in project management, can be applied to FinOps Cloud Cost Management to enhance financial visibility and align cloud spending with business objectives. EVM’s key components, such as Planned Value (PV), Earned Value (EV), and Actual Cost (AC), can be adapted to FinOps to track, control, and forecast cloud costs…

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